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Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior — Read the full paper — When you talk to a large language model, you can think of yourself as talking to a character.
More: Matt Mullenweg and arXiv.org
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files — Scaling long-running autonomous coding. Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of “autonomous” coding agents:
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| Anjali Jain / Inc42 Media: |
Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds — SUMMARY — The round was a mix of primary and secondary capital, with employees getting liquidity through the ESOP programme
More: Entrackr, VCCircle, and The Economic Times
| Kiran Stacey / The Guardian: |
The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling — Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US — Despite global uproar over the generation of non-consensual explicit photos, Elon Musk has continued to downplay the issue.| Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian: |
The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK — Government, Bank of England and FCA criticised for taking ‘wait-and-see’ approach to AI use in financial sector
More: Reuters, The Standard, Bloomberg, Financial Times, and The UK Treasury Committee
| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 — The new year was supposed to bring opportunities for beaten-down software stocks. Instead, the group is off to its worst start in years.
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| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
The NYSE plans to use its tech that matches buyers and sellers, plus blockchain networks, to facilitate the real-time trading of tokenized securities in 2026 — The New York Stock Exchange is building a venue using blockchain technology to allow for trading tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds around the clock.
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Forums: r/Superstonk and r/wallstreetbets
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more — We're back to start the year off with a very special live interview with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan, which we taped in front of a terrific audience … | Axios: |
OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the startup is “on track” to unveil its first device in H2 2026; reports suggest it won't have a screen and may be a wearable — OpenAI is “on track” to unveil its first device in the second half of 2026, the company's policy chief, Chris Lehane, said Monday at Axios House Davos.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from ~35B in March 2025 to ~85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise has hit 8M subscribers — Google's improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company's top line. — Over the past year …
More: WebProNews, Rohan's Bytes, and The Decoder
| Financial Times: |
The UK government will take a £25M stake in Octopus Energy's tech spin-off Kraken, last valued at $8.65B, in an effort to encourage Kraken to list in London — Investment aims to persuade tech business to list in London as it gears up for IPO — The UK government will take a £25mn stake … | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO — Artificial intelligence chip designer FuriosaAI is seeking to raise as much as $500 million in a funding round …
More: SiliconANGLE
| James Peckham / PCMag: |
Taiwanese media: Asus Chair Jonney Shih says the company won't release any new smartphones in 2026, which may signal the brand's exit from the Android market — Asus won't release any new smartphones in 2026, and that may signal the brand's exit from the Android space altogether.
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Forums: r/hardware and Slashdot
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